Saralan (Persian: سارالان, romanized: Sārālān; also known as Sārān)[1] is a village in Baranduzchay-ye Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. As the 2006 census, its population was 319, with 89 families.[2]
Saralan
سارالان | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Saralan | |
| Coordinates: 37°26′24″N 45°09′06″E / 37.44000°N 45.15167°E | |
| Country |  Iran |
| Province | West Azerbaijan |
| County | Urmia |
| Bakhsh | Central |
| Rural District | Baranduzchay-ye Shomali |
| Population (2006) | |
• Total | 319 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+4:30 (IRDT) |
History
editIn 1862, Sārālān was inhabited by 35 Church of the East Christian families, who did not have a priest or a church, according to the Russian archimandrite Sophoniah.[3] Edward Lewes Cutts noted there were 35 Church of the East Christian families in 1877, with no priest or church.[4] It was located in the Baranduz District.[4] Basil Nikitin recorded that the village was populated by Christians and Muslims just before the First World War.[5] Prior to the First World War, there were 100 Assyrian houses at Sārālān, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922.[6]
References
edit- ↑ Saralan at GEOnet Names Server
- ↑ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011.
- ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 334.
- 1 2 Wilmshurst (2000), p. 336.
- ↑ Wilmshurst (2000), p. 333.
- ↑ Gaunt (2006), p. 417.
Bibliography
edit- Gaunt, David (2006). Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913 (PDF). Peeters Publishers. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
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